This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Do vs. Jutsu

Episode Date: February 9, 2026

When your guest explains the difference between a do (way) martial art and a jutsu (art). From our Virtual Fringe episode with Dan Handley

I mentioned the old style versus the new style. The new style is like anywhere from 100 to 150 years old, depending on which style you do. And Shortenruz is like 1930s, whereas Shodakana's 1920s, you know, some before that. But these are the doughs, as opposed to the Jitzus. You know, the Jutsu's versus the Do's. The Jitsu means the method, where dole means the way.

And so the big difference is it's nowadays it's more of a philosophical type of thing. You have your karate dough, your judo, your ikeedo. Even in the Korean has picked that up with taekwondo, the way of the foot and the fist. And then tongsudo and hapiquido and things like that. Whereas the jihisos were more practical. It was a hard fight. And that's your jiu-jitsu, that's your Nenjitsu, that's your Aiki Jiu-Jitsu, which Ikeed was formed from. So you've got to make that distinction on the doughs because, I mean, it's two different philosophies,

even though they're interactive in martial arts. Yeah, absolutely. That's pretty cool. And I didn't really stop to think about that, but that's pretty awesome to learn. Yeah. Yeah, because when it comes down to it, martial arts, any fighting is punch, kick, grapple, wrestle. Those make up everything. And you get to something like Iketo was born from Aikin Jiu-Jitsu.

Iki Jiu-Jitsu is brutal. It is super brutal. But Ikeed was made to be a gentle way of practicing martial arts from, a like a spiritual and fitness standpoint without being violent. And so they use the grappling, the throws, this type of thing. But in order to make it practical, you got to go back to the Aki Jiu-Jitsu with the punching and the kicking and all that.

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